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Brazil Olympics taking human toll
Rioting inmates in a prison in northwestern Brazil have taken 122 people
hostage, mostly visiting relatives of prisoners.
Prison spokeswoman Sandra Melo said on Saturday that also four prison
guards were among those taken hostage at the Advogado Jacinto Filho prison
in the city of Aracaju, Sergipe State.
Melo added that the riot, which took place in one wing of the detention